Great Panther Signs New Sales Contracts

Great Panther Signs New Sales Contracts for Topia Concentrates

GREAT PANTHER RESOURCES LIMITED announce it has signed contracts with Louis Dreyfus Commodities Metals Suisse SA (LDC), part of one of the world’s largest commodities trading companies, for the sale of lead and zinc concentrates from the Company’s wholly owned Topia silver-lead-zinc mine in Durango State, Mexico. The contracts are effective through to December 31, 2010 and will enable Great Panther to achieve further reductions in unit costs from its Topia operations. Including other cost-cutting measures, Topia’s unit costs for 2009 are now forecast to be in the range of US$8.50 to US$9.00 per ounce of silver, net of by-products, down from the initial estimate of US$11.00 to US$11.50 per ounce (see news release dated Feb. 18, 2009). Topia’s costs in the first quarter of 2009 had already started to come down, to US$9.18, due to higher base metal prices and to spot sales of lead concentrate to LDC while the silver refinery in Torreon was on strike.


Under the new agreements with LDC, concentrates are trucked by road from the Topia mine to the Pacific coast port of Manzanillo. The port facility in Manzanillo receives and stores the concentrate before exporting it by ship to Asian smelters, mainly in China. Over the last year the Asian demand for concentrates has increased dramatically such that highly competitive terms are now being offered. These new, lower terms outweigh the added transportation costs when compared to selling concentrates to the Mexican lead and zinc smelters. LDC blends concentrates from a number of sources to meet the various requirements of the Asian smelters.

Topia reported production of high quality concentrates in the first quarter of 2009: 372 tonnes of lead concentrate, with grades of 8,700g/t silver and 59% lead; and 434 tonnes of zinc concentrate, with grades of 470g/t silver and 55% zinc. The concentrates contained a total of 169,162 silver equivalent ounces (Ag eq oz), including 110,814 oz silver, 110 oz gold, 222 tonnes of lead and 276 tonnes of zinc. Production is continuing at these levels for the second quarter.

Great Panther also operates the larger and lower cost (US$5.21 per ounce in Q1 2009) Guanajuato silver-gold mine, from which concentrates are sold to the IMMSA copper smelter in San Luis Potosi. The estimated combined cost per ounce for the two mines in 2009 has been revised downwards to the US$6.00 to US$6.50 per ounce range, from the initial estimate of US$7.00 to US$7.50.

The Company reported total metal production from both operations of 480,267 Ag eq oz in the first quarter, including silver production of 334,635 oz. The mines are expected to increase production further through the balance of the year and the Company forecasts 2009 metal production of 1.45 million oz of silver, 6,000 oz of gold, 750 tonnes of lead and 840 tonnes of zinc, (2.07 million Ag eq oz).

Robert F. Brown, P.Eng. Vice President of Exploration for the Company is the Qualified Person for both the Guanajuato Mine and the Topia Mine, under the meaning of NI 43-101. Aspects of both mines relating to mining and metallurgy are overseen by Charles Brown, Chief Operating Officer for Great Panther and its Mexican subsidiary, Minera Mexicana El Rosario, S.A. de C.V.

NiMin Energy Signs Term Sheet for Long-Term Financing
NiMin Energy Corp. announced the execution of a preliminary term sheet for a senior secured loan (the “Loan”) in the amount of US$36 million from a large institutional private lender (the “Lender”). At the request of the Company and subject to approval by the Lender, the Loan may be increased up to US$75 million to provide additional development capital.

The new long-term Loan will be used to repay the Company’s existing short-term debt of US$22.4 million and to fund the 2010 capital program – which is focused on developing the recently acquired Wyoming assets. The Loan is for five years, carries a fixed interest rate of 12.5% per year and is expected to close by May 31, 2010, subject to customary due diligence, negotiation of final terms, conditions and other fees and costs, and approvals by Lender and the Company’s Board of Directors.

Clancy Cottman, NiMin’s Chairman and CEO, said, “This long-term financing is an important step for the Company as it both removes the short-term debt obligation from our balance sheet and provides us with the capital to execute our 2010 drilling program – including continued drilling in Wyoming and an additional well in California. It also provides NiMin with significant financing flexibility going forward to grow our business.”

The Company recently announced the completion of its first well at the Ferguson Ranch Field in Wyoming and plans to drill an additional eleven low-risk development wells in the same field during 2010. NiMin is also planning an additional well on its California property as a result of the positive production response from the Pleito Creek “Combined Miscible Drive” operations.

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